To quote Frank Zappa, "The torture never stops".
More deaths in Afghanistan because a crazy preacher here in the US decides to exercise his free speech right and burn a Qur'an. For this Muslims must kill. Not the one who is doing the burning, mind you but the symbol of what they see as part of the network of infidels: the UN and the personnel attacjed to it.
Whatever the reason for the carnage, it is on Muslims to use restraint and self-control like other religious believers do. It is not on us to make them feel better about themselves.
From Reuters/Yahoo April 3
Violence at earlier demonstrations claimed more than 20 lives. Ten people were killed and more than 80 wounded in Kandahar on Saturday. Seven foreign U.N. staff and five Afghan protesters were killed on Friday after demonstrators overran an office in normally peaceful Mazar-i-Sharif city in the north.
A senior interior ministry investigator said on Sunday the killers of the U.N. staff appear to have been "reintegrated" Taliban -- fighters who had formally laid down arms -- although the insurgents have denied any role in the attack.
Over 30 people have been arrested, from areas as far afield as southern Kandahar, western Herat and central Baghlan province, said Munir Ahmad Farhad, a spokesman for the provincial governor.
With little sign of widespread anger fading, the governor also issued an order banning sermons which might "provoke the public." The violence in Mazar began after Friday prayers, some of them harshly critical of the West.
In Kandahar on Sunday, hundreds of people marched toward another U.N. office, again denouncing the actions of U.S. preacher Terry Jones, who supervised the burning of a Koran in front of about 50 people at a church in Florida on March 20.
The governor had promised a strong police presence and it initially appeared the march would end peacefully; many of the morning's demonstrators had drifted away before violence began.
There have been peaceful demonstrations in Kabul, Herat city, Jalalabad city in the east and northern Tahar province.
But anger unleashed on Saturday when protesters waved white Taliban flags, shouted "Death to America," burned tires, smashed shops and vandalized a girls' school returned to the city.
Always condemn either the US or Israel no matter what.
Read it all
More deaths in Afghanistan because a crazy preacher here in the US decides to exercise his free speech right and burn a Qur'an. For this Muslims must kill. Not the one who is doing the burning, mind you but the symbol of what they see as part of the network of infidels: the UN and the personnel attacjed to it.
Whatever the reason for the carnage, it is on Muslims to use restraint and self-control like other religious believers do. It is not on us to make them feel better about themselves.
From Reuters/Yahoo April 3
Two killed, dozens hurt in third day of Afghan protests
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Two policemen were killed and more than 30 people wounded in the southern city of Kandahar on Sunday during the third day of protests across Afghanistan against the burning of a Koran by a militant fundamentalist Christian U.S. pastor, officials said.Violence at earlier demonstrations claimed more than 20 lives. Ten people were killed and more than 80 wounded in Kandahar on Saturday. Seven foreign U.N. staff and five Afghan protesters were killed on Friday after demonstrators overran an office in normally peaceful Mazar-i-Sharif city in the north.
A senior interior ministry investigator said on Sunday the killers of the U.N. staff appear to have been "reintegrated" Taliban -- fighters who had formally laid down arms -- although the insurgents have denied any role in the attack.
Over 30 people have been arrested, from areas as far afield as southern Kandahar, western Herat and central Baghlan province, said Munir Ahmad Farhad, a spokesman for the provincial governor.
With little sign of widespread anger fading, the governor also issued an order banning sermons which might "provoke the public." The violence in Mazar began after Friday prayers, some of them harshly critical of the West.
In Kandahar on Sunday, hundreds of people marched toward another U.N. office, again denouncing the actions of U.S. preacher Terry Jones, who supervised the burning of a Koran in front of about 50 people at a church in Florida on March 20.
The governor had promised a strong police presence and it initially appeared the march would end peacefully; many of the morning's demonstrators had drifted away before violence began.
There have been peaceful demonstrations in Kabul, Herat city, Jalalabad city in the east and northern Tahar province.
But anger unleashed on Saturday when protesters waved white Taliban flags, shouted "Death to America," burned tires, smashed shops and vandalized a girls' school returned to the city.
Always condemn either the US or Israel no matter what.
Read it all
No comments:
Post a Comment